See inside the incredibly ornate residence where a banker from Pompeii lived 2,000 years ago

This is what life was like for the people of Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius erupted.Lund UniversityThousands of years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying and burying the city of Pompeii in ash and stone.

In this reconstruction, the team recreated the house of a wealthy banker called Caecilius Iucundus.

"By combining new technology with more traditional methods, we can describe Pompeii in greater detail and more accurately than was previously possible," said Nicoló Dell'Unto, a digital archaeologist at the University.

This research was thanks to the Swedish Pompeii Project, which was launched at the Swedish Institute in Rome in 2000. It was started after a catastrophic earthquake hit Italy in 1980 to help document Pompeii before there was any further damage.

Before creating their reconstruction, researchers scanned the district of Pompeii and uncovered numerous treasures, such as floor surfaces from the year 79 AD, some still-intact windows, the remains of a laundry, a bakery and several gardens. In one garden there was even evidence that some taps to a stunning fountain had been turned on at the time the volcano erupted.

Below is a screenshot from the video of the large entrance room where the owner would probably have entertained business partners and associates. The researchers say that in the evening, the room would transform character, while house workers would clean and tidy.

The creators of the reconstruction included a sculpture of Iucundus himself in the room, which you can see below. He was a very rich man, but even he didn't belong to the upper most class of the town — the political elite. The owner himself.Lund University

Below is a depiction of where the family father would work, and it would be the most beautifully decorated room in the house to mark his status.